This year National Rice Week is from 12th to 18th September (The Rice Association, 2022). Rice is a comfort food for many people and several cuisines around the world serve it as a main dish. Rice is especially popular in Chinese, Japanese, and Indian cuisines. For instance, rice is the main ingredient of one of the well-known and well-liked foods- Sushi. To give another example, different types of rice dishes are a significant part of Chinese cuisine, like egg fried rice, vegetable fried rice, plain rice, clay pot rice, pineapple fried rice, cheese baked rice, coconut rice and so on. Furthermore, biriyani, pulao, jeera rice, pongal, zarda, khichri, kheer are famous Indian dishes which are made with rice.
Reference:
The Rice Association, 2022. [online] Available at:
National Rice Week 2022 | The Rice Association [Accessed 14 September 2022].